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The Nesboba Democrat, Philadelphia, Miss., May 10, 2000, 7B

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1999 Women's College World Series. USM pitcher Courtney Blades became the NCAA Division I career strikeout leader in Saturday's sweep of South Florida as she finished the day with 1,643 whiffs. : • EC softball tryouts today: East Central Community College will host tryouts for the 2001 fast-pitch softball team today (Wednesday) at 4 p.m. at Lady Warrior Field, EC coach Mike Anderson announced. For more information, contact Ander– son at 601-635-2111, ext. 301 or 310. • State Games baseball tryouts: The State Games will have its baseball tryouts on J une 17 at various sites. Athletes must currently be sopho– mores or juniors to try out. Players from District 4 - Philadel-

phla, Neshoba Central, Choctaw Cen– tral, and Leake Academy - will try out at East Mississippi Community College in Scooba at 10 a.m. District 4 is the defending gold medal winner. District 4 coaches will be Lee Berry– hill of Eupora and Gregg Perry of Winona. District 5 -Union- will try out at Jones Junior College in Ellisville that same day also at 10 a.m. District 5 coaches will be Luke Leggett of Laurel and Wade Clark of West Jones. The eight-team tournament will be June 21-25 at Meridian Community College. For more information, contact State Games baseball commissioner Kent Farris at 662-329-2862.